Tuesday, June 21, 2016

"While the compulsory retention of every website visit for every
person in the UK was recently debated and passed in the House of Commons
in the Investigatory Powers Bill, the plans for statutory surveillance of every child’s Internet use, in schools and at home, has gone unnoticed.

The supporting advice to
which the Government response points, suggests actively monitoring all
screen activity during a lesson from a central console using appropriate
technology as a solution, even in circumstances that suggest low risk.
And that logfile information should be able to identify an individual
user, and be reviewed regularly. Pro-active monitoring is suggested
where alerts are managed by a third-party provider.

Without explicit clarity on the practice of monitoring personal
electronic devices not owned by the school, we risk a slippery descent
into schools made complicit in a privacy invasion of family life."

Thus the stage is set for kids to become tools of the state, from childhood onwards until they die of old age.

"Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever."

Thursday, June 16, 2016

The World Health Organisation (WHO), the organisation that spread aids in Africa via infected needles and that has mismanaged the Ebola and Zika outbreaks, has decreed that hot
drinks "probably" cause cancer.

In other words they don't know!

Not withstanding the fact that WHO hasn't a clue, it has decreed that hot drinks should always be left for a few
minutes to lower the temperature, or cooled down with milk to avoid
disease.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an agency of the WHO, said very hot drinks of 65C and over double the risk of developing cancer of the oesophagus.

However, the panel found there was no evidence that coffee or tea causes cancer and said any link was because of the hot temperature of the drink. Ironically, a few years ago, IARC claimed that coffee did cause cancer!

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

As loyal readers know, Nanny's health advice wrt many things is being disproved on a daily basis.

Hot on the heels of the debacle over her advice about eating less fat, Lord McColl (emeritus professor of surgery at Guys Hospital in
London) has weighed in (see the pun there?) and said that low
fat diets and exercise are pointless for those wanting to lose weight
and obese people should simply eat less.

Lord McColl warned that current health advice to avoid fat was ‘false and
misleading’ and was fuelling the obesity epidemic. He noted that exercising was useless against the huge levels of calories from
carbohydrates and sugars that people are now consuming.

“In the UK the Department of Health and Nice (National Institute for
Health and Care Excellence) maintains for many years that the obesity
epidemic was due to lack of exercise.

It’s a pity that the 500 people employed by Nice didn’t think to go
into the gymnasium get on a machine and exercise to see how few calories
you actually burn off.

One can pedal away on one of those machines for half an hour and
only two or three hundred calories are burned up. One has to run miles
to take a pound of fat off.

The whole subject has been bedevilled by all sorts of theories about
the course of the obesity; genetics, epigenetic, psychological
disturbances. None of them is the cause of the obesity epidemic.

One fact remains. It is impossible to be obese unless one is eating too many calories.”

He noted that eating fat was important because it kept people
feeling fuller for longer, and advised overweight people to start adding
fat into their diet.

“Fat enters the small intestine and greatly delays the emptying of the stomach.

As the stomach emptying is delayed it gives the feeling that one has
had enough to eat. Later when the fat has been absorbed the stomach
then starts to empty again, It’s a beautifully balance mechanism which
tends to prevent us from eating too much and prevents us from getting
obese.”

There you go, what have I been telling you for years on this site?

It is also worth noting that low fat foods are not low calorie.

For why?

The manufacturers add sugar, in order to make up for the lack of flavour caused by removing the fat.

In other words those people who buy low fat foods, in the belief that they will help them lose weight, are being conned by both Nanny and the manufacturers!

Monday, June 13, 2016

Scottish Nanny appears to have taken leave of her senses, as indicated by a plan put forward by her chums from an alcohol charity.

The plan would require businesses, from global supermarket chains to
corner shops and restaurants, to declare the volume of alcohol they
sold, with such data crucial in quantifying how much was being bought,
where and from whom.

The data would then be used to ration alcohol sales. Alison Douglas, chief executive of Alcohol
Focus Scotland, said restrictions on how much drink can be sold could
form part of the conditions of a licence when they are granted by local
authorities.

All very well and jolly, if you are part of the new wave temperance movement, maybe. Except that this plan is bollocks:

1 Using alcohol sales figures and projections is not a gauge
for how much people consumed booze.

2 Scots would simply pop over the border to Carlisle and stock up there.

A totally idiotic plan, put forward by idiotic people. It wouldn't make the slightest difference to alcohol consumption, and would add another layer of bureaucracy to hard pressed shopkeepers.

Thursday, June 09, 2016

Last Saturday morning I watched a rip roaring Ealing comedy from 1947, "Hue and Cry", wherein a gang of street kids (who were expected to make their own entertainment) foil a master crook who sends commands for
robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week,
unknown to writer and printer.

It was a splendidly non health and safety affair, the kids were playing unsupervised in bombed out buildings (without any safety equipment), there were many punch ups, clips round the ears, knives and catapults galore.

Plus they were expected to go out and get jobs, whilst still having time to be kids.

No hi vis jackets were worn by anyone!

All in all a very jolly jape, where today's health and safety rules were completely absent.

Monday, June 06, 2016

I am hugely gemused to see that Nanny is so concerned about the fact that Britain will become a "warm" country, that she is formally advising homeowners to paint their property white to protect themselves from heatwaves.

Seemingly Nanny is of the view that we will start to drop dead when the temperature hits 24.5C.

FFS!

How the hell have people who live in warmer parts of the world managed to survive then?

Not content with telling us to paint our houses white, Nanny also wants us to remove dark curtains and to install external shielding.

Individuals can stay safe by putting a damp cloth on the back of
their necks during hot weather, eating cold foods such as salads and
fruit, and avoiding alcohol and caffeine.

All of this bollocks, and more besides, comes in a 46 page document Heatwave Plan for England published the other week by the NHS and the idiots in Public Health England.

“While hot weather is enjoyable for most people and
uncomfortable for some, sadly experience tells us that exposure to
excessive heat can kill, with most cases of illness and death caused by
heart and lung disease.

Because we are not used to these very hot temperatures in England,
it is important that local plans are in place to reduce the impact of
harm from very hot weather."

I will only believe it when I see a British summer where the temperature exceeds 35 degrees for 30 consecutive days!

In fact I am old enough to remember the drought of 1976, people didn't go around panicking then and as far as I recall thousands were not dropping dead in the street on a daily basis.

Friday, June 03, 2016

It appears that, only in the USA for the moment, Facebook could be listening in on people’s conversations all of the time.

Kelli Burns, mass
communication professor at the University of South Florida, has warned that the Facebook app might be using people’s phones to gather data on what they are talking about.

Indeed Facebook has admitted that its USA app app does listen to
what’s happening around it, but "only" as a way of seeing what people are
listening to or watching and suggesting that they post about it.

Professor Burns has said that the tool
appears to be using the audio it gathers not simply to help out users,
but might be doing so to listen in to discussions and serve them with
relevant advertising. She says that to test the feature, she discussed
certain topics around the phone and then found that the site appeared to
show relevant ads.

Mobile phones, TVs and other electronic gadgets (eg dolls) are being fitted with systems that monitor what people say. Are we really so naive to think that this is a harmless "gizmo" and that corporations (and others) won't misuse the data that they collect?

Wednesday, June 01, 2016

The Taxpayers' Alliance (TPA) has done a wee bit of research into the sugar content of certain popular drinks, and exposed how farcical Nanny's sugar tax will be.

The TPA found that Coca-Cola, with 10.6 grams of sugar per
100 millilitres, will be subject to the tax, but a Starbucks signature
hot chocolate with whipped cream with coconut milk, which has 11 grams
of sugar per 100 millilitres, will not.

Energy drinks such as Monster Origin, 11g/100ml, will be
taxed, but Tesco chocolate flavoured milk, 12.4g/100ml, will not be taxed.

In fact the 10 most sugary drinks analysed by the TPA will not be subject to the levy.

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